The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Finally

My tsunami of a cold has abated, leaving me still with a rattling cough and sneezy (plus a few cold sores 'cos I am so lucky), but there's a definite feeling of not-being-sick. Maybe it's just having my temperature settle for a happy medium.

Outdoors, not so much; there was a short, nasty little front blowing through overnight and in its wake, the warm breezes and sunshine of the last two days has yielded to unseasonable coolth (36! F!) and overcast. Still, no snow, so I'll count it a win.

Relieved to hear you are recovering, hope it does not take much longer.

Germany is probably hust playing "feel-good" politics. Or the anti-nuke crowd is in [hopefully temporary] ascendancy.

Closer, Cuomo wants to shut down the India Point plant (he has been wanting to do so for years) because it is now known to be on two fault lines. Now, that is of some concern, but while he is at it why is he not calling for the evacuation of New York City? The island of Manhattan is basically a huge boulder sitting directly over a known fault line, after all, with far more disastrous consequences probable from a quake.

I believe that a couple of years ago, Czar Putin decided to prove he was a Man's Man, and called Europe's Bluff when he decided to double the price of Natural Gas in the middle of one the coldest Winters on record, and the EU refused to pay his Shakedown. So he shut off the Pipeline to the West. 35,000+ DEAD people later, (mostly the Poor and the Elderly), the EU said "You Win" and gave him the cash. I think Merkel led the butt kissing on that one, and she's still wearing Russian Brown Lipstick to this day. You can take the girl out of East Germany, but....

"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."